7 Traits
Cuneiform writing is an example of this trait.
What is record keeping?
Hammurabi established this city at the center of the empire.
What is Baghdad?
The Sumerians first created this to build mud bricks that were the foundation of their infrastructure.
What is the wheel?
This is the name for areas that have shown incredible population increases since WWII, where architecture has reached new heights, and where tourist attractions abound!
What are mega-cities?
The time period of Mesopotamian Civilization?
What is 5000 BCE - 1750 BCE?
Priests, Priestesses, and Kings represent the "top" of this trait, where slaves fall at the bottom.
What is Social Classes?
These two branches of mathematics were passed onto other civilizations from the Babylonians.
What are geometry and trigonometry?
The Phoenicians were masters of this, which led to expanded trade and the spread of ideas.
What is navigation?
This is another name for Mesopotamia.
What is "the fertile crescent" or the "cradle of civilization"?
This "character" was a real-life king and also a character in mythical tales
Who was Gilgamesh?
The Standard of Ur, the Ziggurat, and The Ram in a Thicket are all examples of this trait.
What is Art & Architecture?
Under Babylonian rule, this god was worshiped over patron deities.
What was Marduk/Bel?
One of these two civilizations outlined how the sun, moon, and planets move, establishing one of the first studies of astronomy.
What is the Sumerians or the Babylonians?
Name one of the four mountain ranges researched by our classmates. (One is found just south of the Caspian Sea. One is located in Turkey. Another stretches into Eastern Asia.)
What are the Zagros, the Taurus, the Elburz, or the Hindu Kush Mountain Ranges?
The invention of the potter's wheel eventual let to the wheel's use in this ancient vehicle, which spread to both Greece and Rome.
What is a chariot?
Hammurabi and the Babylonians were known for this trait.
What is a Centralized Government?
Ultimately, this - as with the Assyrians - led to the downfall of the first Babylonian Empire, after which city-states began in-fighting and outside forces took over.
What is the death of their leader, Hammurabi?
The Greek and Roman alphabet was based of of this civilization's first writing system.
What is the Phoenician system of writing?
This is the first civilization of Mesopotamia.
What is Sumer?
This Akkadian leader was known for living peacefully alongside the Sumerians. He took over the Sumerian city-states and created the world's first empire, which he led for 50 years.
Who was Sargon?
Sewars, reservoirs, and dams are an example of this trait.
What is Public Works & Infrastructure?
These laws governed life in the Babylonian Empire.
What is Hammurabi's Code?
This age is noted by the creation of both tools and weapons by both the Hitites and the Assyrians.
What is the Iron Age?
The Arabian Desert is divided into five regions, each known for a different feature. Name two of these features.
What are the crystals of ad-Dahna, the oil of the Tuwaiq Escarpment, the quicksand of Umm al Samim, the 100' sand dunes (or bugs) of the Wahiba Sands, or the emtpy quarter of the Rub 'al Khali?
A stepped pyramind built in honor of a city's Patron Saint, also considered its founder
What is a ziggurat?